http://rtfw.org/ Tue, 21 May 2013 19:36:17 +0000 MyBB http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=554 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:44:36 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=554
I also recently installed a new theme, and added mobile support

Board URL: http://prophecycraft.org]]>
I also recently installed a new theme, and added mobile support

Board URL: http://prophecycraft.org]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=551 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:43:48 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=551

Detox is a album that Hip-Hop producer Dr.Dre that has be announced to be in production Sine 2003ish.

The site is full of great information, the information about detox is on the site almost as soon as it is released. Now to the actual layout of the site ethics is we're I become a bit more critical as the website has a very basic design. There is no images helping make the layout of the site look good, the site is mostly just boxes of code with an image of Dr.Dre on the right hand side.  On the top it has a sub section for each *Leaked* Detox songs. As well the site has polls about what you think about the tracks.   The big problem with this site for me is the lack of a banner I think having one would add to the site significantly.

For what the site has and everything about it I would give it a 4/5 because the actual website is not outstanding.]]>

Detox is a album that Hip-Hop producer Dr.Dre that has be announced to be in production Sine 2003ish.

The site is full of great information, the information about detox is on the site almost as soon as it is released. Now to the actual layout of the site ethics is we're I become a bit more critical as the website has a very basic design. There is no images helping make the layout of the site look good, the site is mostly just boxes of code with an image of Dr.Dre on the right hand side.  On the top it has a sub section for each *Leaked* Detox songs. As well the site has polls about what you think about the tracks.   The big problem with this site for me is the lack of a banner I think having one would add to the site significantly.

For what the site has and everything about it I would give it a 4/5 because the actual website is not outstanding.]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=550 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:37:32 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=550 CloudFlare service to our site, which will improve it's responsiveness and security. It should also help block spammers, giving us more time to focus on the community we want. Unfortunately, this may inconvenience legitimate users in regions that tend to have a lot of spam farms, such as a few Asian countries and Russia. We will try to keep this to a minimum, but if you get blocked let us know.

Thank you for visiting!]]> CloudFlare service to our site, which will improve it's responsiveness and security. It should also help block spammers, giving us more time to focus on the community we want. Unfortunately, this may inconvenience legitimate users in regions that tend to have a lot of spam farms, such as a few Asian countries and Russia. We will try to keep this to a minimum, but if you get blocked let us know.

Thank you for visiting!]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=549 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:06:18 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=549 http://www.gamedev.net

This is a site where video game developers both hobbyist and professional can go to discuss a wide variety of topics relating to creating video games. It's focused on programming, but there are lively sections for those more interested in other aspects of development, such as design of the game (i.e. rules, theme, style, story, etc.), music and sounds, and visual art. I personally have posted a few times to help people as well as request help myself.

The community is large, so you'll get everyone from newbies to pros and trolls to saints. However, for the most part as long as you don't be incredibly stupid the community sticks to a constructive, logical discussion.

The website went through a pretty major overhaul about a year ago, moving from a proprietary (iirc) discussion system to the Invision Power Board. For a while, they had problems with server resource usage, to the point where they had to disable one of the more useful features a forum can have: marking which threads have been read. However, they seem to have gotten it sorted out and this very useful feature is in place today.

One of the things I dislike about the site is that they've made it very hard to get a user avatar, something most forums either disable completely or make available for everyone. They did this since you're supposed to have an upgraded account to be able to change your profile picture, but if you can figure out the loophole you can get a kind of buggy avatar working.

Another thing I dislike is that the website feels very cluttered. Especially on the landing page where there's 4 tabs for the main article list, as well as 7 (!) side boxes. In the end it just feels like there are boxes and things everywhere that are all competing for my attention, and all blend in to the background.

Overall I would say that as a place to get help with developing a video game, this site is great, with a very helpful community. From a usability standpoint, I'd give it a 3.5. It works, but it's kind of meh.]]> http://www.gamedev.net

This is a site where video game developers both hobbyist and professional can go to discuss a wide variety of topics relating to creating video games. It's focused on programming, but there are lively sections for those more interested in other aspects of development, such as design of the game (i.e. rules, theme, style, story, etc.), music and sounds, and visual art. I personally have posted a few times to help people as well as request help myself.

The community is large, so you'll get everyone from newbies to pros and trolls to saints. However, for the most part as long as you don't be incredibly stupid the community sticks to a constructive, logical discussion.

The website went through a pretty major overhaul about a year ago, moving from a proprietary (iirc) discussion system to the Invision Power Board. For a while, they had problems with server resource usage, to the point where they had to disable one of the more useful features a forum can have: marking which threads have been read. However, they seem to have gotten it sorted out and this very useful feature is in place today.

One of the things I dislike about the site is that they've made it very hard to get a user avatar, something most forums either disable completely or make available for everyone. They did this since you're supposed to have an upgraded account to be able to change your profile picture, but if you can figure out the loophole you can get a kind of buggy avatar working.

Another thing I dislike is that the website feels very cluttered. Especially on the landing page where there's 4 tabs for the main article list, as well as 7 (!) side boxes. In the end it just feels like there are boxes and things everywhere that are all competing for my attention, and all blend in to the background.

Overall I would say that as a place to get help with developing a video game, this site is great, with a very helpful community. From a usability standpoint, I'd give it a 3.5. It works, but it's kind of meh.]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=544 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:06:47 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=544

IMTECH Global

IMTECH Global is a manufacturer of semiconductor fabrication machinery. They've had clients such as Intel, Motorola, Freescale, Texas Instruments, and a few other big names. A few months ago, they came to me to help revamp their old website to bring it into the modern age.

The original design was inspired by the old, darker Jolicloud website design, but went through several revisions due to client choices and technical difficulties. There's still a little bit to do; I want to redo the icons, especially the "Return" one in the subpages, we need to redo some of the pictures for consistency, and we need to review the product descriptions to ensure clarity and accuracy.]]>

IMTECH Global

IMTECH Global is a manufacturer of semiconductor fabrication machinery. They've had clients such as Intel, Motorola, Freescale, Texas Instruments, and a few other big names. A few months ago, they came to me to help revamp their old website to bring it into the modern age.

The original design was inspired by the old, darker Jolicloud website design, but went through several revisions due to client choices and technical difficulties. There's still a little bit to do; I want to redo the icons, especially the "Return" one in the subpages, we need to redo some of the pictures for consistency, and we need to review the product descriptions to ensure clarity and accuracy.]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=130 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:10:44 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=130 http://hackaday.com/

This site isn't so much about cracking computer security (though there is some) as it is about making things do stuff it wasn't meant to, building low cost solutions with interesting materials, and electrical engineering.

I enjoy visiting this site every day, because even though I don't have the money to get in to building electronics or have anything I need to improve upon, some of the projects presented here are wonderful.

They prefer to post projects that are open, giving either circuit designs, code, or thoroughly explained processes, making it easier for people to reproduce or ideally improve upon.

The key issues are with the (rather poor) stereotypical techie theme to the site, misspellings being common, and the ever-present stupid commenters.

Overall I'd give the site 4/5, because the minor spelling issues and the meh theme don't get in the way of the information being presented all that much.]]> http://hackaday.com/

This site isn't so much about cracking computer security (though there is some) as it is about making things do stuff it wasn't meant to, building low cost solutions with interesting materials, and electrical engineering.

I enjoy visiting this site every day, because even though I don't have the money to get in to building electronics or have anything I need to improve upon, some of the projects presented here are wonderful.

They prefer to post projects that are open, giving either circuit designs, code, or thoroughly explained processes, making it easier for people to reproduce or ideally improve upon.

The key issues are with the (rather poor) stereotypical techie theme to the site, misspellings being common, and the ever-present stupid commenters.

Overall I'd give the site 4/5, because the minor spelling issues and the meh theme don't get in the way of the information being presented all that much.]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=79 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:35:57 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=79
As the community is obviously new, I'm going to be adding a bunch of Vita videos and news so I hope I can get this up and off the ground and I'd love to see some of you guys come and help out.

And um, if any one has some suggestions for me I'd love to hear them!!

Forums - http://psvitals.net
Twitter - http://twitter.com/psvitals]]>
As the community is obviously new, I'm going to be adding a bunch of Vita videos and news so I hope I can get this up and off the ground and I'd love to see some of you guys come and help out.

And um, if any one has some suggestions for me I'd love to hear them!!

Forums - http://psvitals.net
Twitter - http://twitter.com/psvitals]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=14 Mon, 09 May 2011 20:48:44 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=14
Having said that, as a hardcore wargamer i've turned to this website for over 10 years now to find out the latest news about new games coming out. Many of these games are produced independantly or by small shops and so do not have a lot of ways or $$$ to get the message out about their games.

While the website itself is a little dated and the content not always exactly professionally presented the content itself is what really matters to me, and i've turned to this website for information about the most obscure wargames, and have rarely been disappointed by wargamer.com

Were I to rate the site I would put it like this:
Overall B+
Content A
Graphics B
Forums B
News A]]>
Having said that, as a hardcore wargamer i've turned to this website for over 10 years now to find out the latest news about new games coming out. Many of these games are produced independantly or by small shops and so do not have a lot of ways or $$$ to get the message out about their games.

While the website itself is a little dated and the content not always exactly professionally presented the content itself is what really matters to me, and i've turned to this website for information about the most obscure wargames, and have rarely been disappointed by wargamer.com

Were I to rate the site I would put it like this:
Overall B+
Content A
Graphics B
Forums B
News A]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=10 Sun, 08 May 2011 06:03:07 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=10
I loathe the Fry's website. Especially compared to NewEgg's, the Fry's site just feels outdated. The design is cluttered and looks like it's from the early to mid 2000s. I can live with so-so looks as long as the site is easy to use. This is not the case here. Browsing is nowhere near as organized, and searching is useless unless you know exactly what you're looking for. The categories could be separated out better (when I see "electronic components" I think capacitors and resistors, not motherboards and video cards. That should be in a category called "PC components" or something) and the user should have better filtering options.

On top of that the info listed is... well, it's not wrong, so much as not as detailed as it should be. Bringing back the motherboard example, we decided to compare the listing on the Fry's site to the listing on NewEgg to see price differences and whatnot. The prices were the same, however NewEgg listed the motherboard as having PCI Express 2.0 x16, whereas Frys left off the 2.0 part. Since it was that 2.0 that we were specifically looking for, we would have completely skipped that product and not found what we were looking for had we not had the idea to compare it on another site first.

Of course, there are reasons NewEgg's website is so far more usable than Fry's. NewEgg doesn't have a physical store that you can walk in to, so their website has to be top notch. Fry's, on the other hand, has stores where you can go and talk face to face with a real person. Overall, I'd say the Fry's site is usable, but could use much improvement; especially since they have an online competitor to be compared to.]]>
I loathe the Fry's website. Especially compared to NewEgg's, the Fry's site just feels outdated. The design is cluttered and looks like it's from the early to mid 2000s. I can live with so-so looks as long as the site is easy to use. This is not the case here. Browsing is nowhere near as organized, and searching is useless unless you know exactly what you're looking for. The categories could be separated out better (when I see "electronic components" I think capacitors and resistors, not motherboards and video cards. That should be in a category called "PC components" or something) and the user should have better filtering options.

On top of that the info listed is... well, it's not wrong, so much as not as detailed as it should be. Bringing back the motherboard example, we decided to compare the listing on the Fry's site to the listing on NewEgg to see price differences and whatnot. The prices were the same, however NewEgg listed the motherboard as having PCI Express 2.0 x16, whereas Frys left off the 2.0 part. Since it was that 2.0 that we were specifically looking for, we would have completely skipped that product and not found what we were looking for had we not had the idea to compare it on another site first.

Of course, there are reasons NewEgg's website is so far more usable than Fry's. NewEgg doesn't have a physical store that you can walk in to, so their website has to be top notch. Fry's, on the other hand, has stores where you can go and talk face to face with a real person. Overall, I'd say the Fry's site is usable, but could use much improvement; especially since they have an online competitor to be compared to.]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=8 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:20:16 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=8 Site Name: Edgley Forums

Site URL: https://edgley.org

Description:
The Edgley forums is the fiery aftermath of several domain name changes and forum explosions.

The goal has always been a place for the slightly geeky inclined to have a place to get together and talk about slightly geeky things. I guess it's a general forum with a technology sway.

Currently the forum is only a few weeks old, but already we have several active users looking for an excuse to talk about computers, cars and games.

At Edgley Forums we also pride ourselves as valuing a high level of privacy to the user base, with almost all user information being optional (excluding DOB which can be hidden), a tightly nit admin team who all value privacy and soon to have a dedicated IP with an SSL certifcate.

We also pride ourselves on user liberties, doing our best to reduce bureaucratic rules and regulations that the users have to endure and put the responsibility into the users hands. Of course we all need a little direction, and so we try to steer our users towards an accepting community that is available to all (as many as applicable of course) races, creeds, genders, sexualities and disabilities.

So feel free to join up and help our community grow!]]> Site Name: Edgley Forums

Site URL: https://edgley.org

Description:
The Edgley forums is the fiery aftermath of several domain name changes and forum explosions.

The goal has always been a place for the slightly geeky inclined to have a place to get together and talk about slightly geeky things. I guess it's a general forum with a technology sway.

Currently the forum is only a few weeks old, but already we have several active users looking for an excuse to talk about computers, cars and games.

At Edgley Forums we also pride ourselves as valuing a high level of privacy to the user base, with almost all user information being optional (excluding DOB which can be hidden), a tightly nit admin team who all value privacy and soon to have a dedicated IP with an SSL certifcate.

We also pride ourselves on user liberties, doing our best to reduce bureaucratic rules and regulations that the users have to endure and put the responsibility into the users hands. Of course we all need a little direction, and so we try to steer our users towards an accepting community that is available to all (as many as applicable of course) races, creeds, genders, sexualities and disabilities.

So feel free to join up and help our community grow!]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=7 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:00:01 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=7 I'm edgley, I'm 20 years old and from the UK.

I found this site through the MyBB forum showcase (I lurk there) and just wanted to join up because I like the idea and think the ball needs to get rolling!

I will also have to put my own MyBB forum in the showcase section I guess!]]> I'm edgley, I'm 20 years old and from the UK.

I found this site through the MyBB forum showcase (I lurk there) and just wanted to join up because I like the idea and think the ball needs to get rolling!

I will also have to put my own MyBB forum in the showcase section I guess!]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=6 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:38:55 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=6
This album for the most part has a relatively mellow feel, nice for relaxing after a long day and doing a good job of capturing the feel of a good road trip. My personal favorite songs would probably be (in no particular order) Phoner to Arizona, Revolving Doors, Amarillo, Little Pink Plastic Bags, and Aspen Forest.

Buy it on iTunes here!]]>
This album for the most part has a relatively mellow feel, nice for relaxing after a long day and doing a good job of capturing the feel of a good road trip. My personal favorite songs would probably be (in no particular order) Phoner to Arizona, Revolving Doors, Amarillo, Little Pink Plastic Bags, and Aspen Forest.

Buy it on iTunes here!]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=5 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:58:18 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=5 http://42kmi.com]]> http://42kmi.com]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=3 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:35:08 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=3 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=2 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:09:04 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=2
Our community is new, but starting to grow, and we could always use more opinions. Be sure to introduce yourself, read the rules, and start reviewing websites!

Our website is powered by the wonderful and free MyBB forum software, with a few helpful plugins. The theme was developed in-house specifically for this site, and will be undergoing constant improvement (and if you don't like something, post a review!).]]>
Our community is new, but starting to grow, and we could always use more opinions. Be sure to introduce yourself, read the rules, and start reviewing websites!

Our website is powered by the wonderful and free MyBB forum software, with a few helpful plugins. The theme was developed in-house specifically for this site, and will be undergoing constant improvement (and if you don't like something, post a review!).]]> http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=1 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:07:14 +0000 http://rtfw.org/showthread.php?tid=1   Screen Shot 2011-03-28 at 4.40.30 PM.png (Size: 57.64 KB / Downloads: 0)

Google.com is a website that allows users to search the internet for other websites. Google is currently the most popular search engine and comes as the default search engine for many if not most browsers.

Pros:
-Google has a simple layout that makes it easy for all users to read and find webpages.

-Google has the option to show only certain sites such as those with a lower reading level.

-Google not only allows a web based search but also allows a web based picture search.

-Google has a search that allows users to look on the web for videos. You can select different durrations. You can select when the video was uploaded as well as the source the video came from.

-With Google you can select the type of content you want to see, this helps you not see adult themed sites when searching.

-Google can search for locations in the world and give you a map from one place to another. With a second place such as "pizza" it will tell you all the pizza places near the first location you have selected.

-You can search a topic and get all the recent news for that topic with the news tab in Google

-Google shopping lets you search an item and it will list places that you can buy it and the cost of the item from that site

-Gmail is a free email service thanks to google. Gmail has many options and is commonly used

I will add more information to this post at request.]]>   Screen Shot 2011-03-28 at 4.40.30 PM.png (Size: 57.64 KB / Downloads: 0)

Google.com is a website that allows users to search the internet for other websites. Google is currently the most popular search engine and comes as the default search engine for many if not most browsers.

Pros:
-Google has a simple layout that makes it easy for all users to read and find webpages.

-Google has the option to show only certain sites such as those with a lower reading level.

-Google not only allows a web based search but also allows a web based picture search.

-Google has a search that allows users to look on the web for videos. You can select different durrations. You can select when the video was uploaded as well as the source the video came from.

-With Google you can select the type of content you want to see, this helps you not see adult themed sites when searching.

-Google can search for locations in the world and give you a map from one place to another. With a second place such as "pizza" it will tell you all the pizza places near the first location you have selected.

-You can search a topic and get all the recent news for that topic with the news tab in Google

-Google shopping lets you search an item and it will list places that you can buy it and the cost of the item from that site

-Gmail is a free email service thanks to google. Gmail has many options and is commonly used

I will add more information to this post at request.]]>